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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Porn has almost always been a last stop for people who couldn't get a real job or make it in the real world. ESPECIALLY when we're talking online porn where the barrier to entry is almost non-existent. This means ANYBODY and EVERYBODY can try and 'make it' in Adult.
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That's an urban myth.
This was a CLOSED business up until the internet started.
So that "almost always" part of your post is completely false. There were only a handful of players, and not many more performers.
As for online porn...of course anybody can TRY to make money in adult.
Just like they can TRY to make money in EVERY business in the world online.
The barrier to adult isn't any lower than any other online business.
And why people would even post things that make their own business look bad is beyond me.
It isn't bad enough that "civilians" already (erroneously) think the worst of people in the adult industry...but then we have our "own people" posting things like this on a public forum too?
Here is my experience since I started online adult in 1997:
The people I have done business with, met, and interacted with...whom were actually IN the adult industry are NOTHING like the cliche.
Most are people with families, many give back to their communities...in other words, they are very, very "normal" people.
The majority of the folks I have met and interacted with over these decades have also been above-average intelligent, ambitious, and hard working.
Yes, there are a few dumbasses. Most of them are fringe people who have never held a camera in their hand or been on a porn set.
But I have never met a successful person who was truly in this industry that I felt couldn't be successful in any other business.
A lot of them never were successful anywhere else because they simply never HAD to be.
Just like Bill Gates never HAD to be successful in anything else but Microsoft.
Porn Nerd, if you really think that the industry is full of people who are just stupid and couldn't make it anywhere else, etc. ... then name names.
Which successful people do you think aren't "good enough" or are in adult as the "last stop" before total life failure?
Let's start with the old names since you insinuated that's it's almost always been so:
Hugh Hefner?
Bob Guccione?
Larry Flynt?
How about more recent folks?
Steve Hirsch?
Any of the owners of "big" studios?
How about online?
Do you think The Hun wouldn't be successful?
Or Maurice at FreeOnes?
You get what I'm saying.
Just because a person puts a few junk cars in front of their trailer with for sale signs on them doesn't mean that they are in the Auto Industry.
To categorize "porn" in a way that insinuates that the people you are really talking about represent porn, is the same as saying that trailer park guy represents the auto industry as equally as the head of GM.
There are millions of people out there that are affiliates of everything you can think of.
Just because they are an affiliate of a site that sells Rolex watches doesn't mean that they are "in" the fine timepiece industry.
